diff --git a/new.go b/new.go
index 56efc07..fc7a6b1 100644
--- a/new.go
+++ b/new.go
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ package repostatus
 
 import (
 	"errors"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"net/http"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
@@ -103,19 +105,87 @@ func guessPaths(path string) (string, string, string, bool, error) {
 }
 
 // attempt to git clone if the go path doesn't exist
-func clone(wdir string, path string) {
+func clone(wdir string, path string) error {
 	fullpath := filepath.Join(wdir, path)
 	if IsDirectory(fullpath) {
-		return
+		// directory already exists
+		return nil
 	}
 	err := os.Chdir(wdir)
 	if err != nil {
-		return
+		return err
 	}
 
 	base := filepath.Join(wdir, filepath.Dir(path))
 	os.MkdirAll(base, 0750)
+	err = os.Chdir(base)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
 	shell.RunPath(base, []string{"git", "clone", "http://" + path})
+	if IsDirectory(fullpath) {
+		// clone worked
+		return nil
+	}
+	var url string
+	if url, err = findGoImport("http://" + path); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	log.Info("URL:", url)
+	shell.RunPath(base, []string{"git", "clone", url})
+	if IsDirectory(fullpath) {
+		// clone worked
+		return nil
+	}
+	return errors.New("resolve go import")
+}
+
+// this is a terrible hack and really
+// shouldn't be here. Hopefully this can
+// be removed and the GO compiler code can
+// be involked directly (it appears to currently
+// be an internal/ function in the GO sources
+// so it can't be imported from outside the compiler
+func findGoImport(url string) (string, error) {
+	resp, err := http.Get(url)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+
+	bodyBytes, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+
+	tmp := string(bodyBytes)
+	parts := strings.Split(tmp, "go-import")
+	if len(parts) < 2 {
+		return "", errors.New("missing go-import")
+	}
+	// this is terrible, it doesn't even look for 'content='
+	// but again, this is just a hack for my own code to be
+	// usuable after the removal in go v1.22 of the go get clone behavior that was in v1.21
+	parts = strings.Split(parts[1], "\"")
+	var newurl string
+	for {
+		if len(parts) == 0 {
+			break
+		}
+		tmp := strings.TrimSpace(parts[0])
+		fields := strings.Split(tmp, " ")
+		log.Info("FIELDS:", fields)
+		if len(fields) == 3 {
+			newurl = fields[2]
+			break
+		}
+		parts = parts[1:]
+	}
+	if newurl == "" {
+		return "", errors.New("missing git content string")
+	}
+
+	return newurl, nil
 }
 
 func NewRepoStatusWindow(path string) (error, *RepoStatus) {